temperament
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temperament (plural temperaments)
- (obsolete) A moderate and proportionable mixture of elements or ingredients in a compound; the condition in which elements are mixed in their proper proportions.
- (obsolete) Any state or condition as determined by the proportion of its ingredients or the manner in which they are mixed; consistence, composition; mixture.
- a person's normal manner of thinking, behaving or reacting
- a tendency to become irritable or angry
- (music) the altering of certain intervals from their correct values in order to improve the moving from key to key
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a person's normal manner of thinking, behaving or reacting
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a tendency to become irritable or angry
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the altering of certain intervals from their correct values in order to improve the moving from key to key
[edit] References
- Oxford English Dictionary, Second Edition, 1989